Comments on It’s the Sum, Not the PartsComputer architects create something of functional beauty, just as do their cousins who work in the more tangible media of rock and stone. Consider John Cocke and the IBM 801, Ken Batcher and the Goodyear MPP, Tadashi Watanabe and the NEC SX. Similarly, Seymour Cray’s designs balanced many aspects of power engineering, packaging and cooling, memory bank design and functional unit architecture, and his success arguably rested as much on his prowess as a packaging and cooling designer as it did on his acumen as a processor and memory system designer. TypePad2009-10-12T04:55:41ZDan Reedhttp://www.hpcdan.org/reeds_ruminations/tag:typepad.com,2003:http://www.hpcdan.org/reeds_ruminations/2009/10/its-the-sum-not-the-parts/comments/atom.xml/